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I'm just looking for a few facts about the Columbine High School shootings - the date, the names of the kids that did it, how many people were killed. It's for my biog. of Marilyn Manson, so any short quotes from news reporters in regards to the allegations against his *influence* would be helpful too...

I have access to something called Proquest - you might find it useful if you can get access at your local library/school/college/uni. You can get the text of most articles from most UK broadsheets back to 1986 and before.

Check your email, I've picked one article and sent it to you

I really just need the sate of the shooting, the names and the number of kids killed.

I'll go look now though.

You have that, plus quite a bit of journo-bulls**t.

eg "Nobody thought to link the group with the broader "goth" movement - the offshoot of punk obsessed with satanism and medieval torture - despite two alarming incidents in 1997."
and
"The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said it had never heard of the Trenchcoat Mafia at Columbine, even though the group advertised itself in the 1998 high school yearbook with the legend: "Who says we're different? Insanity's healthy! Stay alive, stay different, stay crazy.""



I don't know about you, but I don't really expect the police to scour the details of high school yearbooks.

Oh...I can only laugh at stuff like that. Dominic Mohan from the Sun had a whole double page spread on the evils of Marilyn Manson, and urged the people to throw out his records. Fantastic stuff.

There is a whole different world between interest and behaviour. I'm interested in *facist chic*, and I'm a Satanist, and I also listen to Manson and other similar music but I'm not about to go out and even touch on that kind of behaviour...it really is quite astonishing how stupid people can really get.

Especially considering the fact that neither of them owned any Marilyn Manson records, and thought he was (and I quote) a "fag"...

So did U get what U needed? I live in Co. While I dont care to relive it for long, I could find more if you like.

Saturnine, have you seen the documentary Bowling for Columbine. Michael Moore goes into all the facts of the Columbine shooting, including the fact that the bullets were bought at K-Mart, and that the kids who did the shooting had a bowling class that morning. The film also includes an interview with Marilyn Manson (did I get the name right?) It's a funny film, and very thought provoking too.

The date was April 20th, 1999, the shooting deaths were 15 (13 plus the two shooters, doesn't include the injured who survived), and the names were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

I saw a clip from Bowling for Columbine, where he's at a bank that will give you a gun free for depositing a certain amount in the bank. I thought that was kind of disturbing.

Abbi - Yes

Other researcher - No, it's not showing anywhere near me, so I have to wait until it's out to rent.


Wampus - I've got that